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" I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction. "

Elie Wiesel

Universe

Adventure

Remember

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Teacher

Words

" I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language. "

" I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. "

" No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. "

" Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins. "

" Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. "

" Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. "

" When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. "

" I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born. "

" The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these words, I wouldn't have written anything else; it's just enough. "

" For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile. "

" In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die. "

" Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. "

" Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man. "

" When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling. "

" Some stories are true that never happened. "

" In Jewish history there are no coincidences. "

" You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens. "

" I write to understand as much as to be understood. "

" I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. "

" Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history. "

" I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine. "

Elie Wiesel

Israel

Living

" When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a fascination with the vanished world, and I can find everything except that world. "

" We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else. "

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Beyond

Working

" No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. "

" Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. "